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TIL Emmett Till has a memorial that’s been shot up, 3 times and now has a bullet proof one installed

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BZly TIL when Anders Celsius invented the temperature scale, he put 100 degrees as the point for freezing and 0 degrees as the point for boiling. Another scientist, Carl Linnaeus, waited until Celsius had died to change the scale to the way we read it today.
6EG1Z TIL a “devil’s advocate” was a person sanctioned by the Vatican to argue against the canonization of a potential new saint by pointing out their flaws and critically evaluating their miracles. Christopher Hitchens served as a devil’s advocate for Mother Theresa.
R5nM8 TIL there are about 1000 train derailments per year in the US. Almost 3 per day
n0a9 TIL that Japanese paratroopers in WWII had rifles that folded in half. They quickly discovered that these modifications didn’t work too well.
ZWND TIL that according to McDonaldland lore Hamburglar has a salad-loving, vegetarian cousin called Iceberglar.